During a remote meeting of the Plainville Town Council, town leaders received an update on the environmental study of the White Oak Construction site which led to a reduced estimated cost for remediation. Sarah Burkhalter-Sweeney, Senior Project Geologist at Loureiro Engineering Associates, Inc., said that by better confining the areas of contamination, she has new estimates on remediation costs. Previously it was a low-end of $300,000 and a high-end of $1.3 million. Now, the low-end remains the same but the high-end estimate is only $1 million. Burkhalter-Sweeney also reviewed three conceptual plans proposed re-use of the site. The council, she said, had elected to go with Plan B which calls for mixed residential and commercial use. Town Manager Robert E. Lee said that acquiring the property will open up the town to grants for remediating it.
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